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Energy-efficient refurbishments
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Energy-efficient refurbishments
Review of the live webinar from 24.04.2025: Mastering refurbishment despite monument and neighborhood protection
Energy-efficient refurbishment, but the heritage office says no? In many cities, ambitious climate targets collide with legal requirements. In particular, the preservation order (§172 BauGB) and monument protection pose major challenges for owners, project developers and local authorities.
When historical substance meets modern requirements, refurbishment becomes a supreme discipline. In our April webinar, we shed light on precisely this area of conflict: How can the energy-efficient refurbishment of existing buildings succeed despite monument or conservation regulations?
The challenge of monument and neighborhood protection
On April 24, 2025, our live webinar on the approval hurdles in monument and neighborhood protection took place. Our ESG managers Jenny Jürgens and Anna Clauß provided important insights. It quickly became clear that refurbishment projects in existing buildings are rarely easy, but that planning can be particularly challenging under the requirements of monument or neighborhood protection. Different sets of regulations at state level, lengthy approval processes and the challenge of reconciling climate protection and economic efficiency make for a high level of complexity.
Especially the §172 BauGB, the so-called preservation ordinance, presents real estate developers with additional hurdles: The aim is to protect the residential population and the cityscape. This makes sound project preparation essential.
You can find the most important findings and solutions in the summary of the webinar here as a PDF for download.
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Purpose Green is one of the leading German climate tech companies based in Berlin, transforming the building sector with comprehensive end-to-end solutions for energy-efficient refurbishment and ESG-led asset management. Purpose Green is the only company in Germany to offer a holistic, modular, combinable approach for the real estate sector: its own Green+ portal links intelligent software solutions with specialist ESG and energy consulting as well as operational construction management.
Real estate owners, managers and institutional funds thus receive tailored support in the transformation of apartment buildings, residential and commercial buildings as well as office buildings - both at individual property and portfolio level. In this way, Purpose Green enables individual sustainability goals to be achieved efficiently, CO₂ emissions to be significantly reduced and properties to be future-proofed in terms of value retention and sustainable value appreciation.
Purpose Green was founded in 2023 by Okitonga Memba and the brothers Lucas and Lennart Christel. Backed by leading early-stage investors such as Speedinvest, Atlantic Labs and Fifth Wall, Purpose Green is driving sustainable change to decarbonize the real estate sector.
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